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Month: December 2017

More snow today. They said between 4 to 6 inches today by the time it’s done later this evening. I took this, this morning around 10am. They also said frigid temps are coming in this evening. For the next 3 days it will be -2F or so in the daytime (ambient temps, so wind chills will take it down they said to -20 to -30) and -17F ambient temps at night, so temps with wind chills around -30F and occasionally down to -40F. BRRR, winter is here. So I am staying toasty warm in the house. I did remember to put “Heet” in my gas tank just in case I have to drive somewhere.

I’ve started on the Te Ara Fingerless Mitts for my friend to help use up her left over yarn from the 3 Color Cowl I knit her. I’ve made these before here . They were fun to knit and I think they look very classic and elegant :). I will be playing a little bit of yarn chicken with this skein. Weight wise, I should barely have enough, but this is a little heavier weight fingering weight and I hate cutting things so close just in case. If it doesn’t work out I will have to frog and use one of the other colors she had left over, but this was the one she wanted them knit out of. Crossing my fingers.

“And it came to pass that he cried mightily unto the Lord all that day; and behold, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying:

Lift up your head and be of good cheer; for behold, the time is at hand, and on this night shall the sign be given, and on the morrow come I into the world, to show unto the world that I will fulfill all that which I have caused to be spoken by the mouth of my holy prophets” 3 Nephi 1:12-13

May you all have a blessed and wonderful Christmas, and may the peace of this season be with you through out the New Year.

This is what I woke up to this morning, the weather man was right :). It ended up about 1/2 inch by the time I got home from Church. Might be some more snow tomorrow. So we do have a white Christmas this year :).

My last knitted gift for Christmas, YEA!! This pattern is call Basia and is a really interesting and easy knit. Just enough texture to keep your attention but an easy texture to memorize :). I kettle dyed this with an acid dye and it is a deeper blue than my picture shows, I’m not much of a photographer. This is my 2nd Basia hat (made one as a Christmas gift last year) and I knit this with the same sport/dk weight yarn I had processed at the mill from the Polypay fleece I was given. I have only one more skein of the yarn left out of 11. I do have two more fleeces in the trunk of my car, but haven’t had the extra money to have them processed into roving or yarn. If my car would stop being a money pit I could send them off to process :P.

This was the first snow of our 2017-2018 winter. This was a week & 1/2 ago or so. I should have put it up before, but… It wasn’t much, just a dusting, and it has since melted. We are suppose to get some snow tomorrow morning and Monday, so just in time for Christmas, tho it isn’t suppose to be much, maybe a 1/4 to 1/2 inch. This, so far, is a very low moisture winter for us, and I won’t complain about the warmer weather, much better than -40, tho I think Jan will bring much colder temps than we have been having.

This was an interesting knit. Each band had different stitches, some lace and some texture and some color changes and ribbing. My friend loved it and that is all that really matters :). I need to get some blockers, pins leave little “juts” in the fabric. I’ve seen several different kinds. I’ll have to check them out. But for now on to a different project :).